Customer Reviews

Altered States of America

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this is the most inciteful and emotionally powerful cd ever made. there is nothing but love and good feelings all over this album. the lyrics really made me wanna go out and make a difference in my community. i would've liked to see less love ballads and a little more brutality, but overall, i think there's good moral lessons to be learned on this album that should be taught to children. in fact, i strongly suggest parents make this a staple in their young, developing child's life. i think it's important to teach society about the values espoused by agoraphobic nosebleed. they have shown us through intelligent, insightful, polite, and generally good-natured lyrics that being good to each other is the most important thing we can do with our lives. if i was president i would have everyone locked in a box with just this cd playing over and over for eternity.

i get hard whenever i hear this beautiful arrousing cd

For many years I searched endlessly, high and low, for the most obnoxious, offensive music known to man. Imagine my joy when I discovered this little 20-minute monstrosity. Truly, this album is the Unholy Grail of brutality and offensiveness.
99 tracks that clock in at around 20 minutes? It's even more ludicrous than you can imagine. Basically, each track is a few seconds of full-auto machine gun drums, mindless guitar riffs, bizarre samples and lyrical haikus that see-saw between hilarious and disturbing. Really, the lyrics are the most entertaining element of the album; they are the product of some genuinely deranged imaginations.
Stylistically, the music is a big leap from the stuff they did on "Honky Reduction" and a definite improvement (if you wanna call it that) from their previous "Frozen Corpse..."; the samples and programming are tighter yet the music itself reaches new levels of chaos and unpredictability. This is actually the disc that introduced me to this insane group, as well as grindcore in general, and I've since bought and grown to like their other albums. I'm no expert on grindcore and this may not be the best introduction to the genre, but it certainly got me hooked and it's impossible to ignore once you've experienced it. My only complaint is that this is formatted on a 3-inch mini-disc that doesn't play on car stereo, which is a shame because it seems this would be the perfect music to listen to while committing vehicular manslaughter during rush hour.

...well they got that part right. when i put this 3 inch 100 song disc in my computer my windows media player completely froze up causing me to have to reboot several times. i put it in my portable cd player and couldn't listen to more then 3 songs in a row without it getting stuck. im assuming the constant track changes caused that. Anyway i brought it to work and listened to it on the office computer with my headphones. these guys are insane. ridiculously fast beats, one sentence lyrics and obscure samples. i especially liked the instrumental breaks and soundscapes in between songs. most of the tracks just seem like one song segmented apart, so don't listen to this on shuffle. also dont play on a cd player that has that little 2 second gap between songs, it gets irratating. So anyway as an absurdist music lover i gave this 4 stars, it lost one because its so unaccessible i dont think many people will even hear it. but pick it up if you like crazy shiznit.

I don't know if it's true but sometime during the last year I heard that ANb were being considered for the Guiness Book of World Records, something about "the most songs on one album." There are 100 songs on "Altered States of America" and they last anywhere from 2-10 seconds (the longest being Wonder Drug Wonderland which clocks in at 1:47) although they blend seamlessly into one another so more often than not you won't know where one song ends and another begins. All in all this is one hell of an album. Filthy drug ridden lyrics, outrageous song titles, great riffs, throat ripping vocals.....it's all here for your listening pleasure.

That's really the only way to describe it, and ANb just get better at it with each release. 'Frozen Corpse ...' was over the top, but Scott Hull's guitars and Jay Randall's innane babble just pummels you to death with this one. The most insane thing is the intense, fast pace of the album - you never really get to fully process it all, so repeated listenings are necessary to enjoy all of the nuances this little (and I do mean little) disc has to offer. My advice is to burn a copy onto a standard size disc and enjoy it on your drive to work ... Being stuck in traffic will never be the same again ...

is how i felt after listening to this. it's an amazing little album. it left me feeling disgusted, ponderous, and ultimately worn out thinking 'i need a break'. if i didn't just get back from band practice, this would probably fire me right up. i was reading along with the lyrics and that is quite a lot of information to take in(100 songs in less than half an hour??? ...). randall and co. discuss lots of weird little issues and you can make of them what you want, some of them seem pretty heady. the music is just like their previous stuff, only faster and noisier although there are some real catchy riffs and licks(as far as ANb goes). the only parts that got on my nerves were the 'hungry homeless handjob' type interludes where a processed voice says a line or two for about twelve tracks. i suppose if i was under the influence of something that would seem a lot more interesting.

overall, i'm kind of glad i bought it because this disc is something else. it seems much more carefully thought out like they had an actual vision than an album like prosthetic cxxx's FYDWAFVFS. very interesting indeed, an overwhelming listening experience. it's more than enough grindcore to last you for a while. me, i'm going to take a break and listen to some robert rich because my nerves are shot.

Some may or may not know but there is 100 tracks on this CD. When you put it in your CD player...when "Spreading the Dis-ease" starts to play (one of my fav songs from ANb!) use the rewind button and let it keep going, it will go in to the negatives and it will soon stop I forget when but thats how you hear the 1st track...any who...this is a great album...mind blowing insanity! BUY IT if you dont have it....if you don't...why the hell don't you have this?

4 vocalist one gutairist many random samples and a drum machine.
100 tracks of pure grindcore, you will ethier you this album or think its white noise.
I love this album and recomend checking out pig destroyer (gutiarist scot hull other band)

These songs can tear your ears apart. They are absolutely brutal. While many do come together as larger pieces, just as many make no sense, including the one about "Blackbeard the Santa." You can only shake your head and grin at how messed up these guys must be.